It started with suffering.

In 2013, not unlike many other sixteen-year-olds, I was no stranger to mental health challenges - namely anxiety and obsessive-compulsive issues.

I was raised Presbyterian. From a young age, I gave Bible readings in church and helped (in the loosest sense of the word, probably) my grandmother teach elementary Sunday School. Now in the face of clinical mental anguish, I went into nature, to a special familial place, and pled with God to help me through this experience - somehow.

Not long after my cry, I was connected with a wonderful therapist who provided invaluable recovery support. And on July 4th of that year, my mother - who had been taking psychic development classes - lent me a small book about the angelic realm, hoping that perhaps something in it would prove useful or healing for me. It ended up doing so much more.

At the age of 17, I completed the first training of my newfound path - an angel card reader course with bestselling author Radleigh Valentine. I was certified, and with much further study in the programs of naturopath Robert Reeves, Charles Virtue, and other notable figures, I practiced bringing the guidance and healing of the angelic and broader spirit realms to myself and others. At 19, I was invited to begin facilitating public gallery readings, and I began teaching public workshops.

It was at this time that I discovered another art of direct revelation, one that anthropologists have called the “world’s oldest profession:” shamanism. After a series of advanced trainings in shamanic healing methodologies, I was accepted into Sandra Ingerman, MA's 9th Two-Year Teacher Training in Shamanic Journeying, Healing, and Medicine for the Earth, which I graduated in 2020.

Now, drawing upon a decade of experience working with others, I conduct psychic readings and shamanic healings, as well as message circles and research-centered shamanic training programs.

I have had the privilege of working with a diverse array of challenges with a just-as-diverse array of global clientele. I aim to create an inclusive space in all of my work, including for racial and ethnic minorities and fellow LGBTQ+ persons. I have presented on television, radio, and webinar series, and taught across the United States, including for the Institute for Spiritual Development Washington D.C. and the Free Thinker Institute.

I have had the additional honor of assisting celebrated teachers in their own programs. I served as faculty assistant to Radleigh Valentine during his Creating a Magical Life with the Angels workshop at Kripalu in 2019 (I was also once his over-generously-termed “Social Media Magician”), and later in Sandra Ingerman’s nine-week course, The Dark Night of the Soul as a Portal to the Shaman's Light (for which we also recorded a course bonus entitled “Shamanism and the Younger Generations”), as well as her Taking Medicine for the Earth Work to Higher Frequencies for the Benefit of our Health and the Planet in 2023 and the first week of her final Two-Year Teacher Training in April 2025 - a role during which I also trained late-add studentship in how to teach an advanced shamanic extraction healing training. The Shift Network, through which the Dark Night of the Soul course was held, described me as the “youngest person to train with Sandra on how to teach shamanism.”

I have maintained certification in Adult Mental Health First Aid through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing since 2018, and graduated cum laude with a BA in psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh, where I also served as a research assistant and teacher's assistant administering to two psychology lab courses (which, humorously enough, included a classic rudimentary exercise on “testing” psychic ability). I harness my adoration for research in writing my essays on “sticky subjects,” such as cultural appropriation, money, and abuse and projection in shamanic practice.

I currently call the beautiful river-side city of Vancouver, Washington (in the Portland, Oregon metro area) home with my husband Alexi, who is on track to receive his second master’s degree as the John W. Ryan Fellow at the Indiana University O’Niell School of Public and Environmental Affairs and is involved in the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and our two cats, Spectra and Snoop. In my spare time, I enjoy adding new Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards to my collection, sipping homemade smoothies to whatever new show Alexi and I have discovered, hoping desperately that the eastern marmot somehow migrates permanently to the West Coast (I adore them), and cracking rather unfortunate jokes to my neighbors that make them immensely relieved that my dream is not to be a successful (or even passable) comedian.